Unaccountable nabobs plot against the people

WHEN the mendaciously named Best for Britain campaign was founded, in offices provided by Sir Richard Branson, its backers claimed they respected the referendum result. How hollow that pretence looks today, as the Mail exposes details of the group’s £5.6million plot to sabotage Brexit within six months.

As a leaked copy of the campaign’s month-by-month strategy reveals (goal one: ‘stop Brexit’), the group’s leaders – card-carrying members of global political and financial elites – are set on exploiting every tactic money can buy to manipulate public opinion and mobilise union leaders and MPs to thwart the electorate’s will.

This is the group, remember, which mapped out its plot to overturn the referendum result at a private dinner hosted by the Hungarian-born American billionaire George Soros – known as ‘the man who broke the Bank of England’ after he amassed more than £1billion betting against the pound on Black Wednesday, 1992, when the British taxpayer lost £3.3billion.

An £800,000 donor to Best for Britain, Mr Soros was joined at that notorious dinner by campaign board members including exGoldman Sachs banker Stephen Peel and Lord Malloch-Brown, a foreign office minister in Tony Blair’s government of cronies, who has had his finger in any number of pies from the UN to the World Bank.

Such are the unelected, unaccountable nabobs democracy is up against – the very epitome of the elites that turned so many voters against rule from Brussels.

With egregious cynicism, the group now urges supporters to blame Brexit for every national and local problem that may arise over the coming months (not that the BBC will need any encouragement).

And no matter what deal our negotiators may agree, Best for Britain already has its script prepared: ‘Now we can finally see the real facts, this is not what we voted for.’

We voted for, Mr Soros? Who, exactly, does this group mean by ‘we’?